2017-05-30
Shaenon: This storyline was co-written with David Blake, who pledged at the Arbiter of Reality level of our last Kickstarter and thus gained the privilege of doing Jeff’s job. Thank you, David!
Skin Horse
By Shaenon K. Garrity & Jeffrey C. Wells
Is it Brian’s job to haul away the unused rotting corpse?
I don’t know, but you can see him holding the thread for Remy…
That last line… is it his mother calling? 😉
Oh my gosh! He’s wearing a K&B shirt! I remember when that chain closed, and like many, I have fond memories of that particular shade of purple. A+ Louisiana reference.
Halt! Friend or foe?
…friend?
It’s like “Cake or Death”, you think the answer would be easy, but no.
I’m surprised the crocodile has better vocal cords than the human corpse. Why am I surprised?
Well, it *does* look fresher; and if you’ve ever heard one of the big males bellow during mating season, you KNOW they can be loud. They sound like aquatic lions.
Mad Science Mistake #1 – You’re assuming the vocal cords are what are producing the voice.
There’s no way that’s Mad Science Mistake #1. If nothing else, they’d have run into the Charles Dexter Ward blunder before then.
I think the #1 mistake is “Assuming it works as you expect it to”
So in this case, yes, “You’re assuming the vocal cords are what are producing the voice” is a context-tweaked version of that rule. =P
That was my first thought too, but then I figured Remy had made some modifications to the carcass with a result that it could produce human speech. It’s not exactly ‘stock’ anymore.
Because you aren’t thinking clearly. The oogedy voice was just for effect (vocal cords? Bah!) and since he’s clearly unimpressed they’re cutting the nonsense.
^said ‘not thinking clearly’ was meant to be more clearly teasing than it looked in retrospect
“There are study-hall periods, and there are teacher lunch periods. The sandwich in my hand should be a clue.”
“But I’m BUSY during study-hall!”
As a civil servant, I empathize with Remy here. Boundaries!
What I find so amazing is how calm he is through most of this. I know he is a mortician and a houngan, but you would expect some surprise to a corpse walking up behind him and talking . . . again. Oh.
I just answered my own scenario, didn’t I?